Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Quote by Winston Churchill

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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...

I like a man who grins when he fights.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish...

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish...

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved...

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have...

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have...

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on...

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on...

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She...

She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She...

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount...

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount...

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are...

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are...

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would...

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would...

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of...

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.